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One of the myriads of errors with this movie:
The English Bad Guy says "Oh fuck" before falling to his death. Not only was that the most flagrantly retarded "Please, give me a PG-13 rating. Oh please, oh please!" I have ever seen, but it was helpful in comparing that whole incident to the part where Emma dives from the same height (actually a little bit higher) yet does not make the tiniest of splashes, nor does it take her the estimated 45 seconds to surface. My point: she didn't die -- nay, she wasn't even scratched.
All this movie was was a bunch of OK ideas tied together in the worst way possible. The writer had a bunch of ideas, going, "Well, it should have a hedge maze, a bunch of teddy bears, a balloon explosion, a Big Ben explosion, tornadoes, snow, clones, 25 mechanical mutant bees, and Sean Connery with a fantastically fake accent," and deciding to stop there and let the 'actors' make up the in-between dialogue. If the movie had been made as long as was originally planned, cinemas would've been able to easily put in 175 performances every day. Including previews. This film will hurt Uma's and Ralph's careers more than they can possibly imagine. Reading the script probably gave them the false idea that it was quirky, but once they started acting it out they should've realized how torturous it'd be for us to listen to 70 minutes of continual quirkily-phrased comebacks and witticisms.
Heads will roll for this, but not nearly as many as we all hope for.
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